#libert

It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free. ↗

— Thomas Clarkson

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I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it. ↗

— Voltairine de Cleyre

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I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country. ↗

— Larry Craig

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The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance. ↗

— John Philpot Curran

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It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to prevent the social power from lightly sacrificing the particular rights of a few individuals to the general execution of its designs. In such times there is no citizen so obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed, and there are no individual rights so unimportant that they can be sacrificed to arbitrariness with impunity. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence. ↗

— Vano Merabishvili

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Give me liberty or give me a bran muffin! ↗

— Colin Mochrie

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Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty. ↗

— Ho Chi Minh

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Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

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Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. ↗

— James Otis

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